WooCommerce Hooks Guide: Full List and Examples

WooCommerce Hooks are undoubtedly important and placing them correctly help to extend the functionality of a store without making changes to the core code of the store’s  theme. This blog post will highlight the full list of WooCommerce hooks, describe the main areas of their use and provide some examples of hook placement.

In the article we’ll give the full list of WooCommerce Hooks and will describe the main areas of their use, we’ll also give examples of areas for Hooks placing so that it’ll be easier to use them in the future.

At first some general facts about WooCommerce Hooks. They are designed like another WordPress Hooks and used for setting markup for all pages resulting in faster use of Actions and Filters on them.

As it was mentioned above hooks enable the creation of independent plugins and extensions and don’t modify the main code of WordPress, WooCommerce and other plugins thus eliminating any negative effects on software stability and updatability.

All in all, WooCommerce is marked by hooks very well and lets to expand store’s  opportunities easily. Read on and learn more about the areas currently marked by the hooks.

Also, to expand your WooCommerce store’s opportunities automatically you can use our Premmerce Permalink Manager Plugin that allows you to configure URL generation strategy and Premmerce WooCommerce Product Filter Plugin for managing filters for WooCommerce products.

WooCommerce Global Hooks

We’ve referred three hooks to global and they are displayed on the main pages allowing to make some considerable modifications. Among them:

pre_get_product_search_form

It enables adding some data above the basic search of products.

woocommerce_breadcrumb

It allows to display data above the breadcrumbs URLs.

woocommerce_no_products_found

It allows to display the needed data on the Search page if no products have been found.

WooCommmerce Cart Hooks

In general, the Cart page on WooCommerce is marked very well. We’ve divided all the hooks, that are used on the Cart page, into three groups for convenience.

The hooks that are displayed before the product list in the cart

They are:

• woocommerce_before_cart
• woocommerce_before_cart_table
• woocommerce_before_cart_contents
• woocommerce_cart_contents
• woocommerce_after_cart_contents

The hooks that are displayed after the product list in the cart

They are:

• woocommerce_cart_coupon
• woocommerce_cart_actions
• woocommerce_after_cart_table
• woocommerce_cart_collaterals
• woocommerce_before_cart_totals

The hooks that are displayed at the end of an order

They are:

• woocommerce_cart_totals_before_shipping
• woocommerce_cart_totals_after_shipping
• woocommerce_cart_totals_before_order_total
• woocommerce_cart_totals_after_order_total
• woocommerce_after_shipping_rate
• woocommerce_before_shipping_calculator
• woocommerce_proceed_to_checkout
• woocommerce_after_cart_totals
• woocommerce_after_cart

In case there are no products in the cart

You can use the following hook:

woocommerce_cart_is_empty

WooCommerce Checkout Hooks

As the Checkout page on WooCommerce is very functional, we’ve decided to divide all the hooks,  that are used here, into several categories.

The hooks that are used before the form of user contact information

They are:

• woocommerce_before_checkout_form
• woocommerce_checkout_before_customer_details
• woocommerce_checkout_billing
• woocommerce_before_checkout_billing_form

The hooks that are used for setting markup of billing details

They are:

• woocommerce_after_checkout_billing_form
• woocommerce_checkout_shipping
• woocommerce_before_order_notes
• woocommerce_after_order_notes
• woocommerce_checkout_after_order_review

The hooks that are used before the product summary in the order

They are:

• woocommerce_checkout_after_customer_details
• woocommerce_checkout_before_order_review
• woocommerce_review_order_before_cart_contents
• woocommerce_review_order_after_cart_contents
• woocommerce_review_order_before_shipping
• woocommerce_review_order_after_shipping
• woocommerce_review_order_before_order_total
• woocommerce_review_order_after_order_total

The hooks that are displayed below the order form

They are:

• woocommerce_checkout_order_review
• woocommerce_review_order_before_payment
• woocommerce_review_order_before_submit
• woocommerce_review_order_after_submit
• woocommerce_review_order_after_payment
• woocommerce_after_checkout_form

The hooks that are displayed in the product list of an order.

They are:

• woocommerce_order_items_table
• woocommerce_order_item_meta_start
• woocommerce_order_item_meta_end
• woocommerce_order_details_after_order_table
• woocommerce_thankyou

WooCommerce Product Hooks

In this part  we’ll review all hooks that are used on the Product page. There is a number possible hooks here and that’s why we’ve divided them into several categories according to their purpose. We use them at our Premmerce WooCommerce Product Filter Plugin for filtering results without reloading the page.

The hooks that are displayed at the top and at the foot of the Product page

They are:

• woocommerce_before_main_content
• woocommerce_after_main_content

The hooks that are displayed above  and below  a product description

They are:

• woocommerce_before_single_product_summary
• woocommerce_after_single_product_summary

The hooks that are displayed at the top and at the foot of the Product page

They are:

• woocommerce_before_single_product
• woocommerce_after_single_product

The hooks that are displayed in the short product description

They are:

• woocommerce_single_product_summary
• woocommerce_product_meta_start
• woocommerce_product_meta_end
• woocommerce_share

The hooks that are displayed in the comments

They are:

• woocommerce_review_before  
• woocommerce_review_before_comment_meta
• woocommerce_review_meta
• woocommerce_review_before_comment_text
• woocommerce_review_comment_text
• woocommerce_review_after_comment_text

WooCommerce Category Hooks

WooCommerce provides some hooks for working with the product categories. Let’s review them with screenshots for better visualization. These ones we use at our Premmerce WooCommerce Variation Swatches Plugin to optimize the WooCommerce based online stores with large databases of products, attributes and variations.

woocommerce_archive_description

It is displayed below the category title

woocommerce_shop_loop

It is displayed before the Product card in the list.

woocommerce_before_shop_loop

It is displayed above the product list in the category.

woocommerce_after_shop_loop

It is displayed below the product list in the category.

woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item

It is displayed at the end of every Product card description.

The hooks that additionally  mark the Product card in the list.

They are:

• woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item_title
• woocommerce_shop_loop_item_title
• woocommerce_before_shop_loop_item_title

WooCommerce My Account Hooks

These hooks are for the detailed marking of the My Account page. We’ve also divided them into two categories.

The main hooks for setting markup of the My Account page

They are:

• woocommerce_before_account_navigation
• woocommerce_after_account_navigation
• woocommerce_account_navigation
• woocommerce_before_edit_account_address_form
• woocommerce_after_edit_account_address_form
• woocommerce_account_content

The additional hooks for setting markup of the My Account page

They are:

• woocommerce_account_dashboard
• woocommerce_before_my_account
• woocommerce_after_my_account

WooCommerce Mini Cart Hooks

These hooks serve to set markup the mini cart that is displayed in the sidebar if you use advanced WooCommerce display settings.

They are:

• woocommerce_before_mini_cart
• woocommerce_before_mini_cart_contents
• woocommerce_mini_cart_contents
• woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_before_buttons
• woocommerce_widget_shopping_cart_buttons
• woocommerce_after_mini_cart

WooCommerce Email Hooks

They are used  for setting email markup. The emails that are sent to the customers after the purchase are marked up  and they usually contain a product list.

They are:

• woocommerce_email_after_order_table
• woocommerce_email_before_order_table
• woocommerce_email_customer_details
• woocommerce_email_footer
• woocommerce_email_header
• woocommerce_email_order_details
• woocommerce_email_order_meta

Other Hooks

We’ve described the main hooks that are usually used for setting markup and extension of the basic WooCommerce functionality.

There are also some Hooks that are not so often used. Here is the whole list of them:

• woocommerce_after_account_downloads
• woocommerce_after_account_orders
• woocommerce_after_account_payment_methods
• woocommerce_before_account_download
• woocommerce_before_account_order
• woocommerce_before_account_orders_paginatio
• woocommerce_before_account_payment_method
• woocommerce_edit_account_for
• woocommerce_edit_account_form_en
• woocommerce_edit_account_form_star
• woocommerce_resetpassword_for
• woocommerce_after_available_downloads
• woocommerce_after_checkout_registration_form
• woocommerce_after_checkout_shipping_form
• woocommerce_after_edit_account_form
• woocommerce_after_subcategor
• woocommerce_after_subcategory_titl
• woocommerce_auth_page_foote
• woocommerce_auth_page_heade
• woocommerce_available_download_en
• woocommerce_available_download_star
• woocommerce_before_available_download
• woocommerce_before_checkout_registration_for
• woocommerce_before_checkout_shipping_for
• woocommerce_before_edit_account_for
• woocommerce_before_subcategor
• woocommerce_before_subcategory_titl
• woocommerce_cart_has_error
• woocommerce_checkout_after_terms_and_condition
• woocommerce_checkout_before_terms_and_condition
• woocommerce_lostpassword_for
• woocommerce_order_details_after_customer_detail
• woocommerce_pay_order_after_submi
• woocommerce_pay_order_before_submi
• woocommerce_product_thumbnail
• woocommerce_shop_loop_subcategory_titl
• woocommerce_view_order

In case you need some additional explanations on any hook usage you’re welcome to leave your comments and we’ll give more information on the topic you’re interested in promptly, or you see see how we use hooks in our products at Premmerce WooCommerce Plugins list.